Cossack Uprising and The Deluge
The Ukrainian Cossack hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky led a Cossack revolt under the premise that the Poles had sold them as slaves "into the hands of the accursed Jews." At that time it is estimated that the Jewish population in Ukraine numbered 51,325. In the name of Orthodox Christianity the army of Cossacks and Crimean Tatars massacred and took into captivity a large number of Jews, Roman Catholics and Uniates during the years 1648–1649.
Recent estimates range from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand Jews killed or taken captive, and 300 Jewish communities totally destroyed.
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